SEJONG, Dec 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government will provide an additional US$5 million in assistance to tackle Ebola in Sierra Leone, Seoul’s foreign ministry announced on December 30. The ministry said that $3 million will be spent on operation costs for an Ebola-dedicated clinic under construction in Goderich, near the capital Freetown. [...]
SEOUL, Dec 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Workers’ Compensation & Welfare Service ruled that Mr. Hyung, an employee with lung cancer, has an occupational illness after working for 35 years at a fire grill restaurant in Korea. This is the first case ever in Korea where a worker’s illness caused by second-hand smoke was [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The government said Tuesday that it will clamp down on hoarding by tobacco product manufacturers and consumers as South Korea moves to increase tobacco taxes in 2015. According to the finance ministry, police and officials from the tax and customs offices plan to check the inventory and sales records [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Several photos showing nurses having a birthday party at a plastic surgery clinic while a patient was on the operating table have hit Korean Internet communities, and raised questions about the morality of Korean medical clinics. On December 28, the photos were revealed when a nurse from a plastic [...]
SEOUL, Dec 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Why a sudden increase of blows at South Korea’s many convenience stores in the run up to the government’s sweeping measure to hike tobacco prices starting January 1st of next year? Hint: Convenience stores are the most favorite destination for smokers to buy a cigarette in South Korea. With [...]
SEOUL, Dec 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of Samsung air purifiers from January to November 2014 increased by 300 percent from the same period last year, said Samsung Electronics on December 25. Samsung Electronics launched a large-sized air purifier dubbed “Blue Sky” this year to broaden its air purifier line-up. The company said that its [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The overall cancer rate in South Korea dropped for the first time in twelve years according to a report published by the Ministry of Health & Welfare and National Cancer Center. Lee Kang Hyun, president of the National Cancer Center said that this optimistic figure might be owing to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In South Korea, however, desire for increasingly “standardized beauty” leads to a plastic surgery boom and this phenomenon entails expensive price, costing a life in some cases. According to Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, a woman in her twenties died on December [...]
SEOUL, Dec 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of Korean scientists succeeded in developing a breakthrough technology to administer an antibiotic susceptibility test in a faster, more precise way. Prof. Kwon Sung-hoon at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, said that his research team has developed a new antibiotic susceptibility test [...]
“During pregnancy the mother and the fetus are considered a single body and disability with the baby must be thus recognized as an occupational hazard case occurred to the mother under the industrial accident insurance law.” “It appears that the pregnant mothers were exposed to harmful substances which resulted in the birth of babies with [...]